One rushing forth out of the thickest weed.
Spenser.
A wild and wanton pard . . . Crouched fawning in the weed.
Tennyson.
2. Any plant growing in cultivated ground to the injury of the crop or
desired vegetation, or to the disfigurement of the place; an unsightly,
useless, or injurious plant.
Too much manuring filled that field with weeds.
Denham.
The word has no definite application to any particular plant, or
species of plants. Whatever plants grow among corn or grass, in hedges,
or elsewhere, and are useless to man, injurious to crops, or unsightly
or out of place, are denominated weeds.